Amedeo Simonetti Wikimedia Commons There is an ongoing tension that we are caught in, yet hardly ever aware of: the tension between our attempts to co-opt life into our personal dreams, goals and projects, and life’s own unfolding field of participation. The irony is that we enter the world as a participant in it – […]
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Angelo Tomasi, Wikimedia Commons There’s a way of being that we almost never name. Not because it’s rare. But because it’s so constant that it escapes our notice. Before we analyse anything, before we form an opinion, before we decide what something is, there is already a quiet participation happening. A kind of being-with. You’re
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We live in an age of naming. By Jan van Eyck Public Domain Everything must be identified, categorized, assessed, optimized, diagnosed, explained. We are encouraged to constantly ask not merely ‘what we are experiencing’, but what category the experience belongs to. Is it anxiety or intuition? Trauma or oversensitivity? Burnout or laziness? Attachment issues or
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There is a verse from the Bible that many of us are very familiar with: Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. Mathew 7:7 For most of my life, I think I unconsciously interpreted this in a fairly transactional way. You ask
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Grace is not something that most of us ever think about. It’s not one of those words or ideas that enters our daily conversations. But in quieter moments – when things feel heavy, or when we can no longer hold everything together – something in us is already reaching for it. It’s not an idea or a belief.
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